07 Nov 2003
The Five Obstructions
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
OLO, the Boy from Tibet
What is a country? What is culture? What is it to live?
A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India.
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